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ployed him to transcribe several things, parti- 

 cular the titles of the Fathers' works, as they 

 stood before their several editions, adding my- 

 self what short notes I thought fit to any of 

 them ; and sometimes, though not very often, 

 where the opinion of an author concerning an 

 ecclesiastical writer was large, I set him to 

 draw it into a few lines, but still under mv own 

 discretion and alteration. This, for instance, 

 w^as the case of Origen's works, and of what he 

 pleasantly calls, p. 81, Dissertationem de Ori- 

 genis operibus proprio marte compositam, which 

 was no more than thus : — I set him to collect 

 the writings of Origen, mentioned in Huetius's 

 Origeniana (adding what I thought fit to them) 

 as also the heads of his dogmata, as they stand 

 in the several sections of Huet's book ; and 

 which, accordingly, p. 82. I have acknowledged 

 to have been extracted thence. In Cyprian, I 

 set him to take out his works as they are placed 

 according^ to order of time in the Oxford edi- 

 tion, and to reduce the titles of the last Paris 

 edition to them. In St. Augustin, I sent him 

 to look over three or four volumes (which 

 were all could then be had) of the new Bene- 

 dictine edition, and observe what alterations 

 they had made from former editions ; and they 

 are mentioned up and down in the account 

 of St. Augustin's works. In St. Chrysostom, 



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